Scientology targeting vulnerable children for staff, UK media investigation finds

[Karen#1]

TONY ORTEGA
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This morning the Times of London revealed that one of its reporters had spent months at Scientology’s Edinburgh “org” in an undercover investigation.
Following up on allegations made by former London staffer Alex Barnes-Ross and former Edinburgh staffer Amir Essalhi, reporter Tom Ball confirmed that the Edinburgh office was recruiting children as young as 13 to become poorly paid workers at the Scotland facility, and targeting children who were classified as being home-schooled and could spend all day working for Scientology rather than doing any school at all.
Essalhi told the Times that after some of the Edinburgh’s org executives had spent time in 2024 at Scientology’s “spiritual mecca” in Clearwater, Florida, they had come back with new orders to push for recruitment so the Edinburgh org could go “Ideal,” part of Scientology leader David Miscavige’s 23-year effort to replace existing churches with more expensive and larger locations.
But Essalhi pointed out that the main problem with a recruiting push was that the public is not interested in Scientology, which has suffered from years of journalistic exposes and bad press generally. So the focus on getting new workers was turned on the children of existing members.
“Scientology can’t recruit people. The buildings are empty and they can’t get enough staff members. So the strategy goes into internal recruitment. [They think] ‘Well, what if I can get my mum involved? What if I can get my cousin involved? What if I can get my nephew, my daughter, my whatever?’” Amir told the Times. “So when those guys came back [from Clearwater], it was go, go, go. There was a significant amount of pressure to get as many staff as possible, because now they’ve come back, they’ve got all the training, they know all of the policy, it’s been drilled for three years.”
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Scientology targeting vulnerable children for staff, UK media investigation finds

This morning the Times of London revealed that one of its reporters had spent months at Scientology’s Edinburgh “org” in an undercover investigation.

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[SuperstarNeilC]

 

[SuperstarNeilC]

 

[Hatshepsut]

'On the Good Ship Lollipop....in the sweet store candy shop....

Tragic when parents hand their precious cargo over to be indoctrinated.
My experience in AOLA and Saint Hill was that staffers' teen kids were indifferent. The teens seemed clever and recalcitrant, even though they worked at PUBS or were assembling the meters. I wondered how they could be allowed into the inner sanctum when 'not that committed'. It was obvious that what their SO parents received as reward for slaving was NOT inspiring them to make those life changes.

Lord knows what dreams recruiters seeded in them to steal the littlest ones' futures. Probably had to get there before the hormones kicked in and redirected before nature called.

Some poignant lines begin this.

 

[Enthetan]

It was always that way.

When I was on staff in the 80s, I commented that a staff member’s daughter was functionally illiterate, and was told “So, she’s just going to join the Sea Org anyway”.

I started to drift away when I decided not to bring my eldest child to the org, because I didn’t want recruiters anywhere near the kid. This began the cognitive dissonance.

 

[I M Dex]

When I was on staff in the 80s, I commented that a staff member’s daughter was functionally illiterate, and was told “So, she’s just going to join the Sea Org anyway”.

Hey, nobody's more qualified to enforce Scientology policy letters than a functionally illiterate child.

 

[Hatshepsut]

It was always that way.

When I was on staff in the 80s, I commented that a staff member’s daughter was functionally illiterate, and was told “So, she’s just going to join the Sea Org anyway”.

I started to drift away when I decided not to bring my eldest child to the org, because I didn’t want recruiters anywhere near the kid. This began the cognitive dissonance.

I've watched people who left Scientology, join other self help groups, from Buddhist to Avatar. Somehow they realized the camaraderie and willing to uplift each other in personal goals, was missing. Maybe this was present in WISE, but not in those struggling to. pay bills and donate for OT. Even in the fraternal orders they wish each other joy and are there to assist a brother who might be in some dire situation. It's a promise often affirmed in repeated rituals.

Children are scathed should they ever commit a 'problem'. Yes, causing another to have to put attention on your request for help is a SIN!
Who wants their kids to be alienated and emotionally aloof. All kids need attention growing up. All need help. None have their own finances so as to be independent totally. What a neurotic way to grow up, out of balance and out of sync. I think watching other children be able to make mistakes without being labeled as having evil purposes is cathartic. When you see someone who did not suffer those Scientology assassinations of character, grow up just fine.... normal, ya know you did wrong with so many negative judgments.